Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 286
plyimpossible by the lathe as used almost up to the close of theeighteenth century, its operator holding in his hand a gouge orchisel. Of inestimable importance was Henry Maudslays inven-tion of the slide-rest which firmly holds the tool, moving it auto-matically along the wood or metal being cut.… … Pirn and ring for standardmeasurements. MECHANICAL REFINEMENTS 237 him as cylinders. Perhaps the chief task accomplished by thelathe has been its own improvement, so that to-day surfaces arereadily cut by its tools ac-curately to within a thou-sandth part of an inch.Vastly beyond this feat…
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